[nofap] 25 Reasons To Do It

[Max_V]

@LaucherJunge Ye I recognise that haha, but don't be fooled by the thought "A little edging won't hurt" or "Does it still work ?" , that one mainly comes after you pass the one month mark, it can really fuck with your head, let me tell you.

I think generally as you are shedding old toxic habits and installing high consciousness ones in your life, nofap gets way easier.

I was addicted to porn, mainly masturbation since I was twelve, but now that I'm really working hard on myself, the desire to feel 'better' or orgasm is going, because I generally start to feel awesome and motivated all the time.

So keep going, you fokken got this laddy 

 

[Shin]

4 hours ago, Alexo45 said:

Relapsed after 14 days. I'm really at a loss with this one. Been addicted since i was 12, still haven't kicked it. Max was 50+ days about a year ago. Still haven't watched porn in 16 days though. 

If you can quit entirely porn and still masturbate, it's already a pretty big win.

You want to cut out masturbation entirely though, it's just an addiction, it gives you nothing, in fact it takes you so much in the long run.

 

Right now I'm so full of energy, it's unbelievable, I walk like a princess, full of grace !

 

[Alexo45]

16 minutes ago, LaucherJunge said:

@Alexo45
Im curious is it very different from day 14 onward? Because I heard that is the time it needs to completely get rid of the aftereffects of orgasm.
So far I did 13 days last month and am now on day 10 but this time I felt all troughout like I can keep it going for ever, like I can stay celibate forever the book Cupids Poisoned Arrow really helped me alot too see how bad orgasm actually is in general.

Hmm i don't know. After 14 days not so much changed. The only thing that changed was the urges that occurred less and less, and you start to wonder if NoFap is still doing it's job, because you get accustomed to the benefits. This was dangerous for me, because i was way too focused on the benefits, and not so much on just getting rid of an addiction. 

[Alexo45]

2 minutes ago, Shin said:

If you can quit entirely porn and still masturbate, it's already a pretty big win.

You want to cut out masturbation entirely though, it's just an addiction, it gives you nothing, in fact it takes you so much in the long run.

 

Right now I'm so full of energy, it's unbelievable, I walk like a princess, full of grace !

 

Yea i'm gonna keep trying. I know it's worth it, been there before. I mean i just have no choice.  Lately i'm just masturbating out of habit. I'm not even horny. It's so ridiculous lol. Hahahaha that picture tho xD.

[Alexo45]

1 hour ago, Alexo45 said:

Yea i'm gonna keep trying. I know it's worth it, been there before. I mean i just have no choice.  Lately i'm just masturbating out of habit. I'm not even horny. It's so ridiculous lol. Hahahaha that picture tho xD.

But then again, sometimes i wonder if i'm not making my life harder than it should be with this NoFap thing. I mean, getting a long streak going is all good until you relapse and feel like shit again, only to start over. After a relapse, it usually takes 7 days for me to feel somewhat decent again ( if i even get there ). Before i wouldn't blame myself for relapsing and feeling this way, but then again i didn't have anything to blame for because i didn't know about NoFap. Now with NoFap, i have something to blame ( masturbation and especially porn ), but is it really? I wonder if i'm not just fooling myself with this NoFap thing sometimes..

 

Edited December 19, 2017 by Alexo45

[LaucherJunge]

@Alexo45
See it like this. Let me put this simple, everything that makes you happy is because of the dopamine release. Watching porn overloads your dopamine receptors so much that you need more and more of it (fetishes and stuff, or just more pictures/videos) to get the same effect, after some time you will need porn to feel normal in your daily life but at the same time you will have less and less motivation to do anything, people usually don't notice that because it is a very slow and subtle process. If you stop porn you are in a withdrawl of course but with time pretty much every activity will start make you happy and you will be motivated to do so much more. Masturbation is very similar to that just that the high from porn is bigger over a longer period of time. This is just one aspect of it, there is still much more to it than this, but it already should convince you.

[Alexo45]

8 minutes ago, LaucherJunge said:

@Alexo45
See it like this. Let me put this simple, everything that makes you happy is because of the dopamine release. Watching porn overloads your dopamine receptors so much that you need more and more of it (fetishes and stuff, or just more pictures/videos) to get the same effect, after some time you will need porn to feel normal in your daily life but at the same time you will have less and less motivation to do anything, people usually don't notice that because it is a very slow and subtle process. If you stop porn you are in a withdrawl of course but with time pretty much every activity will start make you happy and you will be motivated to do so much more. Masturbation is very similar to that just that the high from porn is bigger over a longer period of time. This is just one aspect of it, there is still much more to it than this, but it already should convince you.

Yea i know. I saw all these videos and theories. I'm just wondering if we replace "NoFap" with "drinking 2 bottles of water a day" with the same amount of belief behind it, that we would get the same effect.

[LaucherJunge]

@Alexo45
It has much to do with biology, you can't just trick millions of years of evolution like that. The dopamine release is the highest for sexual acts for a reason, the reason is reproduction.
Drinking water usually isn't really associated with dopamine release, rather the sensation of thirst, which is another way our biology forces us to do what we are suppossed to do. Just that we don't live in that day and age anymore where reproduction is neccessary, on the contrary reproduction is causing alot of problems nowadays.
Also just because dopamine makes you happy doesen't mean that more of it = better life. Balanced levels of dopamine will offer a better more stable way of living and in the end you are not gaining anything from having orgasms, just those 2 seconds pleasure which would otherwise be distrubuted all over your daily life.

[Alexo45]

1 hour ago, LaucherJunge said:

@Alexo45
It has much to do with biology, you can't just trick millions of years of evolution like that. The dopamine release is the highest for sexual acts for a reason, the reason is reproduction.
Drinking water usually isn't really associated with dopamine release, rather the sensation of thirst, which is another way our biology forces us to do what we are suppossed to do. Just that we don't live in that day and age anymore where reproduction is neccessary, on the contrary reproduction is causing alot of problems nowadays.
Also just because dopamine makes you happy doesen't mean that more of it = better life. Balanced levels of dopamine will offer a better more stable way of living and in the end you are not gaining anything from having orgasms, just those 2 seconds pleasure which would otherwise be distrubuted all over your daily life.

Will keep on trying. For the heck that i know, i might be at two weeks again by new years eve :). 

[ADD]

I've only been in for under a week and i can already notice i'm much more energetic. I still get laid few times a week, but no more daily fapping. Sex is also more enjoyable. I think i'm gonna do full year now that i started.

[Shin]

14 minutes ago, ADD said:

I've only been in for under a week and i can already notice i'm much more energetic. I still get laid few times a week, but no more daily fapping. Sex is also more enjoyable. I think i'm gonna do full year now that i started.

Learn tantra !

 

Edited December 19, 2017 by Shin

[Shin]

[Shin]

Planning to redo the thread with more informations and helpful links, scientifical studies, apps and guides.

So bombard this thread with all the above you think helped you in a significant way, the new thread will be even better with your help  

 

[hellojohnson]

This video is really inspiring... Can NoFap Change Your Life? (MOTIVATIONAL)